Core Faculty
PhD, Rice University
Associate Professor of Religious Studies & Philosophy and African & African American
Studies
Phone: 225 578 7023
Email: scfinley@lsu.edu
Office: 236 Coates Hall
Research Interests: African American Religious Traditions, African American Religious Thought , African American Religion and Esotericism, Religion and Psychoanalysis, Religion and Embodiment, Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Religion in America
PhD, University at Albany, State University of New York
Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology
Director of African and African American Studies (2017-18)
Phone: 225 578 1785
Email: lorim@lsu.edu
Office: 239 Stubbs Hall
Research Interests: Race and Ethnicity, Wealth Inequality, Asset Poverty, Sociology of Sport
PhD, Indiana University
Professor of Political Science and African and African American Studies
Phone: 225 578 7023
Email: jamsulli@lsu.edu
Office: 202 Stubbs Hall
Research Interests: African-American Politics, Voting Behavior, Political Psychology
PhD, Louisiana State University
Instructor, African and African American Studies
Phone: 225 578 5246
Email: dgree47@lsu.edu
Office: 135 Howe-Russell Hall
Research Interests: Gender, Race, Networks and Social Capital, Qualitative Methodologies, Stratification
and Inequality, and Community